Published on 03:29 PM, October 27, 2017

STAR Day At A Glance| Friday, October 27, 2017

Jamal Khan area in Chittagong city is not safe even for school-goers. It is an everyday struggle for the students to get out of a maze of traffic, created due to unauthorised and arbitrary parking of cars. At least seven reputed schools are located in the area, so thousands of students and their guardians have to undergo this suffering. the situation could turn fatal anytime as children cross the road amid risk, but the authorities apparently do not care about it. The photo was taken on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Photo: Prabir Das/ STAR

Dear readers, here are the headlines of the day on Friday, October 27, 2017.

National 

Tamabil Land Port inaugurated in Sylhet 

Dissolution of parliament a must for acceptable polls: BNP

Murder accused killed in Kushita ‘gunfight’

4,500 yaba pills seized in Ctg 

Khaleda Zia's court statement 'shameless falsehood': Quader 

Housewife burnt in Demra gas explosion dies

2 CU students suspended

2 held for document forgery 

2 held in Dhaka for killing their friend

World 

Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain 

Myanmar gives green light to resume UN food aid  

"Consistent" pattern of crimes against Myanmar's Rohingya, UN experts say 

Sonia Gandhi admitted to Delhi hospital

Zakir Naik promoted hatred: Indian investigators

Spain set to impose direct rule in Catalonia as crisis spirals

Rohingya crisis: Tillerson calls Myanmar army chief

Myanmar's Rohingya crisis 'spinning out of control' 

Kenyans vote, or mostly don’t, in controversial reelection

US releases trove of Kennedy assassination files 

Heart surgery? Slate it for the afternoon: Study 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally opened the Mouchak-Moghbazar flyover for traffic movement on October 26, 2017. Earlier, it was only partially opened for public use. Photo: Amran Hossain/ STAR

Sports 

A big innings was needed, Soumya insists

Kohli’s brand bigger than Messi’s

Hasan stars as Pakistan upstage Sri Lanka 

Real Madrid travel to Girona in eye of political storm

Ibra is back to win the Premier League 

Lyth joins Rangpur Riders